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witholding P45 due to pay issues

  • 15-07-2008 8:18pm
    #1
    mskizzy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭


    Hi I left my last job in April and due to no one informing HR Dept I was paid again in May. I rang them myself in May to say that I had left and have been waiting for my P45 since. None of this is my fault as I gave 4 weeks notice (in April) and it was never my responsibility in the first place to inform the HR Dept that I was leaving. I'm gettting really annoyed now as emergency tax is getting higher and higher and i am getting no response from the company. Does anyone know companies have to issue a P45 within a certain time frame? I already emailed Revenue local office and got no reply. Also I have a document that states that overpayment as a result of leaving the job is the responsibility of the person who never informed HR so just wondering if that would hold up when they ask for the money back?


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  • #2
    ntlbell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,288 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    never email places for things like this there usually black holesgo into revenue or pick up the phone and call them


  • #3
    PurpleBerry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭PurpleBerry


    I've had this problem before. First thing to do is ring the tax office and tell them that you haven't recieved your P45 from your previous employer, depite giving them notice and leaving the company months ago.

    Ask the tax office to issue you with a tax credits form, this will calculate your correct rate of tax and take you off emergency tax. But it won't get you your overpayments back.

    Ask the tax office to get onto your previous employer for you. They will then issue them with a form (I can't remember the name of it) requesting your P45. This is usually enough to make the employers send on your papers.

    Be warned though, your previous employers can ignore this, so it's not 100% foolproof but unless the employer has a particular reason to be messing around with you, they will usually comply. More often than not the only reason they haven't sent on your P45 is lazyness, or as its more commonly referred to, "busyness" so the fact that the tax office has sent them something offical is enough to wake them up a bit.

    In any case, ring the tax office to ask them to send out your tax credits form to your new employer so that you can get off paying emergency tax.

    You will have to pay your previous company back - even if it wasn't your fault. But there is no legal timeframe for a company to forward a P45, not that I know of anyway.


  • #4
    flash harry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 511 ✭✭✭flash harry


    Neesa wrote: »
    But there is no legal timeframe for a company to forward a P45, not that I know of anyway.


    pretty sure it has to go with last paycheck but you can get a new tax deduction card issued by revenue to get you away from emergency tax


  • #5
    PurpleBerry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭PurpleBerry


    flash harry wrote: »
    pretty sure it has to go with last paycheck
    That would be nice, but it doesn't usually happen.

    More often than not, I find companies can't be arsd to give you your P45 on time, They try to claim it as "busyness" but it's really is just lazyness.

    And why do I claim it "lazyness"? Because I've worked in financial departments, believe it or not...


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